Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), April 2017

by: kaifaust
text: REMOTE | Menlo Park, CA<p>React Native Developer Position at October Solutions, Inc.<p>October is a Silicon Valley startup backed by top-tier investors. We&#x27;re building a new way to consume and interact with news, ideas, and online conversations. We&#x27;re seeking a talented React Native developer who is passionate about software development and is deeply committed to building high-quality UIs that users love.<p>The ideal candidate will have the following skills:<p>Meaningful professional React Native development experience
Expert in Javascript development, Experience with abstraction and code reuse, Experience working on large projects and have formed strong opinions on scalable front-end architecture, Forensic attention to detail and ability to implement pixel perfect designs, Strong work ethic, Ability to focus and single-task, Ability to work well with other developers within an agile development team, Positive, optimistic, can-do attitude, A working knowledge of current best practices and a commitment to high-quality, well documented code, Ability to work independently, Strong written and verbal communication skills, Willing to work Monday—Friday during normal business hours<p>Apply Here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;october.workable.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;466554" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;october.workable.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;466554</a>

by: 3riverdev
text: ANYWHERE&#x2F;REMOTE-- Nonprofit&#x2F;Church Technology: Freelance Sales<p>Our calling is to be behind the scenes, using technology to enhance nonprofit impact and sustainability, as well as reducing the distractions and stress on leaders.<p>We&#x27;re in need of freelance sales help in 2017!  We recently launched a product (Donation Spring - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.donationspring.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.donationspring.com</a>) and plan to aggressively promote it after the new year.   Additionally, we continue to pitch our overall consulting and development services.<p>What I&#x27;m looking for:<p>- The scope is primarily to find prospects, have initial conversations, identify needs, and provide them as a pre-qualified prospect.<p>- Someone with sales&#x2F;marketing chops. A sales or account exec career history is helpful, but not a requirement -- we&#x27;ll consider anyone with relevant backgrounds and personality&#x2F;passion alignment.<p>- Experience&#x2F;familiarity with the nonprofit and church industry.<p>- Major bonus points to bringing an existing network of nonprofit&#x2F;church prospects.<p>- Located anywhere in the US.  The more geographically diverse our team can be, the better.<p>- Freelance contract, part-time, at your own pace.  Pay is a traditional commission based on long-term account revenue (negotiable).<p>- Fun, easy going, and service-centered heart.  Our primary focus is <i>serving</i> both nonprofit&#x2F;church missions as well as helping their staff in any tech-centric way we can.<p>If that describes you, I&#x27;d love to chat!  brett@3riverdev.com

by: antoviaque
text: REMOTE OK. Open Source developer on Open edX (OpenCraft - Remote&#x2F;worldwide company based in Berlin)<p>Development specialized on the free software project Open edX, used by many universities and companies to run online courses. See edx.org, stanford.edu or fun-mooc.fr for examples of Open edX instances. We are a team of ten developers, working remotely from Europe, North America, Asia, Russia &amp; Australia. The company is not affiliated with edX, but contributing and working with them on various projects. This is a full time position, were you would be able to work remotely from where you want, as long as you have a good internet connexion. : )<p>It&#x27;s a large Python&#x2F;Django codebase, with good code standards and architecture (a lot of the edX engineers come from MIT). You would work on different clients contracts using the platform. The clients list&#x2F;references include Harvard, edX themselves, the French government, and various startups &amp; universities currently running their own instances, or looking to create one. Tasks are varied, from developing developing core platform features, custom exercises and tools for specific courses (XBlocks), customizing and deploying instances, working on both client&#x2F;server sides, etc.<p>Most of your work is published as free software (Open edX is released under the AGPL license, which requires clients to release modifications under the same license), and you would also contribute to the free software project, pushing some of your developments upstream through pull requests, contributing features, documentation or help on mailing-lists.<p>Stack: Python&#x2F;Django, Ansible, AWS&#x2F;OpenStack, Debian&#x2F;Ubuntu, JS, HTML&#x2F;CSS, MySQL, MongoDB<p>Interview process: a 15 minutes (simple) coding exercise &amp; a 30 minutes Hangout.<p>To apply, fill this form: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opencraft.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;open-source-developer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opencraft.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;open-source-developer&#x2F;</a>

by: zbear
text: REMOTE OK<p>I&#x27;m looking for Sr. Frontend Engineers with expertise in AngularJS.<p>This position is a long-term opportunity open to a freelancer or someone interested in becoming full-time employee, and can be remote. We are collaborating with a U.S. Government-funded NGO, and as such this position requires US Citizenship and a background check. Unfortunately, non-US citizens and Green Card holders are not eligible.<p>As the ideal candidate, you have:<p>- Expertise with AngularJS (versions 1.x &amp; 2+)
- Expert domain knowledge of JavaScript concepts
- Deep understanding of HTML &#x2F; CSS
- U.S. Citizenship<p>Apply via <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;grnh.se&#x2F;vumlq61" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;grnh.se&#x2F;vumlq61</a>.<p>More about us: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.axiomzen.co" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.axiomzen.co</a>

by: ThomPete
text: New York, Remote or New York.<p>Looking for experienced Mac OSX developer with experience in Objective C and Swift.<p>Ghostnote <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ghostnoteapp.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ghostnoteapp.com</a> needs some extra development help.<p>Please mail: info@ghostnoteapp.com

by: cerebrum
text: REMOTE OK<p>Hello I&#x27;m looking for a free lance developer to do a progressive web app, primarily for Android.<p>It&#x27;s for a social media app, so I want basic functionality like searching, displaying pictures, etc...<p>If you are interested reply to this message and I&#x27;ll get back to you.

by: 3riverdev
text: ANYWHERE&#x2F;REMOTE<p>Looking to work with a Java developer on an hourly, part-time contract.  Must be experienced with Spring (especially Spring MVC), Hibernate ORM, JSP&#x2F;JSTL, and Git.  brett@3riverdev.com

by: macroexchange
text: remote<p>Looking for Clojure developer. Plus is knowledge in cryptocurrencies, cryptography, distributed systems<p>Macro Exchange - we are a high-performance trading platform on top of the Internet. ben@macro.exchange

by: sfr
text: Temporary CTO<p>I have a project that&#x27;s in dire need of a CTO to assist with finishing up our MVP project. Must be a JavaScript expert as both FE&#x2F;BE are in React&#x2F;Node.<p>-Node.js
-React&#x2F;Redux
-AWS (Elastic Bean Stalk, Dynamo DB, Elastic Search, Redis, etc.)<p>I need someone who&#x27;s highly capable of working with business focused founder who isn&#x27;t a developer. Project partially completed, would like someone who&#x27;s full-stack or can perform at a high level to assist with sourcing the right talent to get us to launch.<p>Ready to get started now!<p>mhopperfounder@gmail.com

by: sfr
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>Project based back-end developer needed to finish existing project and review specs on next feature set.<p>Contact: stealthystartupsf@gmail.com<p>Backend: Node JS, Dynamo DB<p>Frontend: React&#x2F;Redux<p>Cloud: AWS &amp; Elastic Search<p>Front-End Universal React developer currently on board. Just need a highly proficient back-end dev to help get our MVP off the ground. Submit your resume and most successful project links &#x2F; details. Hiring immediately. This is a contract &#x2F; project based position. This isn’t a fulltime hourly position!